Food labelling terms
An interactive list of labelling terms to help answer the sorts of questions you may ask yourself when you pick up a product in the supermarket. The aim is to help people make healthier and more informed choices when out shopping.

How do you set up and run a cookery club or cook and eat course?

Keep it going! PDF
Guidance for schools and other settings on how they can make their cookery club sustainable

Food Standards Agency
2008

How to set up a “cook and eat” course PDF
Includes a step by step guide and working examples. To help design and run practical courses offering basic cooking skills and healthy eating and budgeting information to community participants from a low income area.

How do you set up and run local initiatives to improve access to healthy sustainable food?

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London Food Access Forum
This forum brings together those organisations and individuals around London trying to improve access to healthy affordable food for people on low incomes. It is free to attend and open to all with an interest in the topic.

London Food Link
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FoodCoops.org
Website developed by Sustain, including information on where to find your local food co-op and how to set one up.

What are the links between food and mental health?

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The Mind Meal PDF
A recipe resource that draws attention to the important relationship between “food and mood”. Serves as an example of what can be done with some of the good mood foods that are generally recommended as beneficial for emotional and mental health.

Mind

Food & Mood Google group
This group is for people to share their experience of exploring the links between diet, nutrition and emotional and mental health.

How do you set up food growing projects?

Food Growing for Groups PDF
Advice on finding funding, getting started, planning with the months of the year, dealing with the media and useful contacts.

Women’s Environmental Network

Grow your own organic food PDF
Information on why to grow organic, finding somewhere to grow, checking the soil, which seasons you can start growing in, what you need, what to grow, feeding the soil and things you can make.

Growing round the houses PDF
Practical advice on food growing on housing estates using garden plots, fruit trees, ornamental borders, growing on concrete and alternative production. Also includes advice on how to set it up on existing estates, design, funding, managing and sources of help.

How do you get hold of healthy sustainable food for an event or meeting?

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Locally sourced Food Finder
The database holds records of producers and suppliers in London and the counties surrounding London, and a few businesses a bit further away supplying products which aren't available closer to the capital.

Capital Growth
This programme will help Londoners transform the capital by creating 2,012 new food growing spaces by 2012. The Capital Growth campaign will offer practical and financial support (for limited periods) to communities around London, helping people get access to land and create successful food growing spaces. Capital Growth will offer funding at several stages until 2012. To be able to apply for this funding your project must already be on the Capital Growth scheme.